Level-up Learning: How School Could Be a Better Game | Caitlin Holman | TEDxUofM
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2017
- How can we make school more engaging? Treat it like a game. Caitlin Holman has co-created a learning platform, GradeCraft, that reflects patterns seen in video games, and can possibly help improve an increasingly outdated education system.
Caitlin Holman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her work focuses on the use of technology to support educational outcomes.
Holman is the co-founder GradeCraft, a gameful learning platform designed to increase student engagement. GradeCraft has been used by more than 4,500 students across 50+ University courses and was recently awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the Third Century Fund to make gameful learning available for all students at the University of Michigan and beyond.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
I am graduating this year, school has failed me. I learned over 95% of what I know from outside of school (TED talks, books, etc...)
Frostbite education youtube channels (including vsauce)
High School, huh? I once read that if we don't take like AP classes or Honors (which don't necessarily teach us, just take them to don't pay them on College) we are basically being babysitted... That's awful.
you are quite right, we should be more sensitive to our feelings and how well we coupled with the people we relate and on this case to what we choose to learn and do in and with our lives
Very true and wise. Now, apply this wisdom to your own presentation. Make it more playful, make the audience want to hear your next sentence, make them laugh and applaud every now and then. Make them learn. Involve them. Make it a game. ☺️
I like how she said ask if you can customize your assignment. In the days of high school, students who had sick days had to write about a reading assignment rather than answer questions. I sometimes wished I had the writing assignment with a bit of discussion because getting a question wrong made me feel like I just didn't read it at all.
i learn from internet more than what i learn in school ... sadly i use most of what i learn in internet more often than what i learn in school
the only place I use what I learn in school is, in school.
I wouldn't be failing in school if teachers didnt just blow me off for getting lost, asking "too many questions", and just not taking their time to actually explain the subject or even not just print out assignments on line I mean for fucks sake I'm a senior and we are learning about the water cycle and heat transfer!!
Preach, every word has a different right, similar to my circumstances that im living im my area im currently focusing on my future with my hardwork and my dreams and people in school specially closeminded teachers they make pressure upon you they try to convince you want good grades that open up a better life but the most of the naive kids just like me dont know how to real world works just like without the grades
Maybe learning should be made up of small modules of which you have choice about which ones to do (but have to complete so many from each category) i.e. you have to complete 10 modules of biology but you get to choose what to learn.
This would be assessed at the end of the module and based on using the knowledge (i.e.writing an essay) rather than exam questions.
Ben Loosen PREACH.
Ben Loosen that's what Montessori schools are like apparently, which is awesome. My boyfriend when to one in elementary school. I don't think they do it secondary education really though
Ben Loosen The only issue though is that it would be way more labor for teachers and it would be harder to evaluate success on a state and national level. And those are issues we already have with our current system
J Girl But tests don't really do good at evaluating students either. Most if not all students ever just study for exams and forget them in a few weeks to a couple months.
Martin Ramos I never said that tests were a great way to evaluate kids, just that as awesome as that system would be that it would be way harder to gauge how our students our doing in a consistent way. I'd love to have a solution to that, but it's just difficult because our counties/states/countries need metrics that indicate the health of our schools. Otherwise, we won't know when a school isn't serving our students. There's no easy solution, you know?
I've learned infinitely more on the internet than I have in school. School feels like a chore, but learning anything online in my free will is fun and engaging.
I want to learn and I like learning, but school makes me not want to learn.
same
the thing is that we can DIE in a game over and over again and respond in the last chackpoind without regret.
This draws so much on Chomsky and anarchism it's great
When 60% of TEDx Talks are about how fucked our education system is you know something's wrong with how we teach our youth
I hope we will figure faster that video games and education are related in France too...
Ouais! Moi aussi :)
"Hey teacher, leave them kids alone"
damn good way to make school better
the grading system reminds me of oysters. Only the largest get moved on to the next level (Sold or separated to grow more) and the smaller stay behind for more growing only at the same level. great vid. I personally enjoyed this perspective and would love to see it work.
I did learn things in school, but my grades mostly reflect the fact that I'm a good test taker. I'm a good cook, too, it just wasn't the skill I needed there. More to the point, though, I hated school and my attempts to go back have failed because after the experience of being able to learn on my own via all sorts of internet-facilitated and other methods, the mind-numbingness of the idiotic rules, not being seen as a person and having so little agency make it a hellish place to be, not to mention how much slower and tedious any actual learning is.
And I hope to learn more how to build these kinds of systems - especially for something like music, where building a skill needs lots of practice - it would be great to make that practice fun...
ya I was almost asleep in class
Affirming the consequent x 100. Nice premisse though.
Learning > Grades, that got me!
Good
"work at the edge of your ability..."
who hates this?..... I like it
Is Caitlin talking to a bunch of children? Her extreme facial expressions and body movements certainly suggest this. I found the talk interesting once I closed my eyes.
Graham Palmer maybe she's used to talking that way.
Sure maybe. Was I the only person who found it a bit weird though.
it's really weird for me cause the audio and video weren't in sync after the ameritrade logo came up in the middle
Nope, you aren't the only one. I found the talk painful to watch.
yay videogames
I like her. :D
pretty dam good 😁 grades and education doesn't necessarily mean success 🙄 not at ALL
Schools as they still are stink.....better decide to be an autodidact and be successful
Great conference
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